Billions of dollars are being invested in electric vehicles in the name of fighting climate change - so how well do they stack up against their petrol and diesel counterparts?

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World leaders are backing electric vehicles as the green fix for our burgeoning road transport emissions. But when you factor in the carbon emissions that come from manufacturing EVs, how well do they stack up against their petrol and diesel counterparts? If all the cars on the road became EVs, could we meet our climate targets?

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